food server

Brings your meal

A food server is a person who brings food and drinks to customers in a restaurant or similar establishment.

The term functions as a gender-neutral alternative to waiter or waitress: Our food server recommended the special.

It also appears in job listings and formal contexts where the older terms might seem dated.

Related

apron · menu · tips · tip jar · restaurant · busboy · hostess · order · order pad · plates · table · uniform · hospitality · bartender · café · fine dining · dining · checkout

Categories
Opposites
service role direction

food serverdiner

Casual American eatery

customer · patron · guest · restaurant-goer · eater

kitchen vs. front-of-house role

food serverchef

Professional kitchen leader

cook · line cook · head chef · sous chef · executive chef

Family

food, server, foods, foodie, foodstuff, serve, serves, served, serving

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G